I have Ubuntu 14.04 Gnome edition on both my laptop and the desktop; both are up-to-date but they have a different past-history of installations and upgrades.
Now, text-type thumbnails are different ...

I need to generate thumbnails for some text files.
Obviously the system somehow has the ability to do exactly this (see the screen shot). Is there any way I can access these images and just copy them ...

If I open the properties window for some random file. If I click on the file icon in that window I can select a new preview image (thumbnail) for the file. This preview will be displayed in the file ...

file manager keeps thumbnails in ~/.thumbnails even after the original photo is deleted.
it's really annoying and i feel like it's insecure if some one can watch a photo that I've deleted. i want this ...

I'm have a thumbnail problem on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine where my thumbnails won't stay deleted. I've gone through the following steps in an unsuccessful effort to permanently delete old thumbnails:
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I have a similar problem to the one under this question: What is tumblerd?
That program is one of the most CPU hungry I ever seen in Xubuntu/Xfce. I do not really need thumbnails preview and I might ...

I'm developing an application for U-Touch that gets a thumbnail from a video in C++ code using libthumbnailer system library. The app does the thumbnailing perfectly in my computer, but when i try to ...

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to ask how to generate video thumbnaiils manually?
In some videos, the generated thumbnail is the logo of the company (in the very beggining of the video), and not ...

I've googled about this for a while but to no avail. I have a huge amount of photos stored in several media and backed up in a cloud. Shotwell generates pretty large thumbnails which are quite good ...

Sometimes I crop PDFs in order to have a one-page reading instead of a scanned two pages. However, nautilus keeps an old thumbnail showing the former front page.
I know that I can delete the hidden ...

I've chosen to have plain-text files displayed with thumbnails in Nautilus.
However, this has suddenly stopped functioning the other day (after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 I guess).
But there's no such ...

How save thumbnail listing of images and videos? For example, the default file/dir navigator (Nautilus, I think) shows a tiled thumbnail view. Just can't find a way to save the entire thumbnail set ...

I have over 500 images downloaded from Shutterstock so they are very large images, some over 10MB. Ubuntu will not show the thumbnail for anything above that file size. Is this a compiz settings issue ...

I have PCManFM installed on xubuntu along with ffmpegthumbnailer. Everything works fine except for some configurations like video border, some file formats like flv and so on. How could I change those ...

How can I stop the new thumbnails being generated to the "Speed dial",(sorry don't know the Lubuntu name for it), and how can I change the background/wallpaper in that dial please?... simple way for a ...

Is it possible to persuade Xubuntu to store file thumbnails for an external hard drive into the drive itself instead of the home folder?
Benefits include avoiding the ~/.thumbnails folder to get too ...

It has been a month since I switched to Xubuntu and tumbler always makes my life harder: killing tumblerd just for ejecting external storages, and making my computer slow enough to become unusable. ...

Sometime back, I was using 12.04 and it was displaying thumbnail previews of HTML pages just like it does for images and videos. I upgraded to 13.04 and somehow lost that feature. Now my HTML pages ...

I have strange problem with thumbnails in my Ubuntu machine.
I was using Ubuntu with Cinnamon 1.8 from stable ppa and it was good but then Cinnamon 2.0 came out with some broken packages uploaded to ...

I'm looking to edit the way for nautilus to handle the zoom.
Since Ubuntu 13.04, when you use the zoom in nautilus it only changes the thumbnails/icons size, and the filename text stay the same.
Is ...

I used to be running Xubuntu 12.10, and I just upgraded to Xubuntu 13.04 (phew, that took a while...)
The first thing I noticed after logging in to my account was that the thumbnails were missing! I ...